Mavericks (2007)

• Everything to Gain: A Conversation with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
• The Time is Now: A Conversation About Darfur
• "Religulous": A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles
• Mira Nair Presents Four Views on AIDS in India

Dialogues (2007)

• THE VIRGIN SPRING Ingmar Bergman - with actor Max Von Sydow
• LA JETÉE Chris Marker - with architect Bruce Hubaware
• CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS Jiri Menzal - with director Ken Loach
• OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR Richard Attenborough - with director Richard Attenborough
• FLOWER DRUM SONG Henry Koster - with director Arthur Dong and actress Nancy Kwan
• BUCKING BROADWAY John Ford - with director Peter Bogdanovich
• THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES William Wyler - with director Sidney Lumet
• ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE Martin Scorses - with actress Ellen Burstyn

New Additions to Several Programs (2007)

TIFF has announced a whole slew of titles, with new additions to Gala Presentations, Special Presentations, Masters, Contemporary World Cinema, Visions, and Vanguard. (I've updated all of those posts to reflect the announcement.) At this point, the only films I'm really eager to see added are the new ones from Jia Zhang-ke, Abel Ferrara, and Valeria Bruni-Tedeshi.

NYFF Lineup (2007)

The full lineup for the New York Film Festival has been posted. Here are the films that haven't yet been announced for TIFF, including a documentary from Jia Zhang-ke! (I've sworn off the use of exclamation points in blog posts, but sometimes they're just called for.)

• Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
• Actresses (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
• The Axe in the Attic (Ed Pincus & Lucia Small)
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
• Calle Santa Fe (Carmen Castillo)
• A Girl Cut In Two, (Claude Chabrol)
• Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
• I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo)
• The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
• Married Life (Ira Sachs)
• Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project (John Landis)
• Redacted (Brian DePalma)
• The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
• Useless (Jia Zhang-ke)

The List So Far (2007)

With only ten days remaining until the full TIFF lineup is finalized, I thought it might be fun to do a "state of the list so far" thread. Right now, what are the five films at the top of your to-see list? What five films have piqued your curiosity even if you don't yet know much about them?

My current top 5:

• Silent Light
• Le Voyage de Ballon Rouge
• Wavelengths 2 and 5
• The Mourning Forest
• Secret Sunshine

Five More:

• Corroboree -- the premise is fascinating and Matt Clayfield really liked it
• Iron Ladies of Liberia -- the trailer has the feel of a Wiseman film
• Death in the Land of Encantos -- I'm eager to see a Lav Diaz film, and this one sounds interesting
• Happy New Life -- I'm a sucker for Eastern European ennui
• Dans la ville de Sylvie -- I'd happily watch this trailer for 90 minutes

Discovery (2007)

• THE BABYSITTERS David Ross, USA
• BLIND Tamar van den Dop, Netherlands/Belgium/Bulgaria
• COCHOCHI Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman, Mexico/UK/Canada
• CORROBOREE Ben Hackworth, Australia
• FROZEN Shivajee Chandrabhushan, India
• I AM FROM TITOV VELES Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia
• KING OF THE HILL Gonzalo Lpez-Gallego, Spain
• LA ZONA Rodrigo Pla, Spain/Mexico
• THE PASSAGE Mark Heller, USA
• ROMING Jii Vejdlek, Czech Republic/Romania/Slovakia
• SEPTEMBER Peter Carstairs, Australia
• WITH YOUR PERMISSION Paprika Steen, Denmark/Sweden
• THE WORLD UNSEEN Shamim Sarif, UK/South Africa

New Additions to Gala Presentations (2007)

Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream have been added to Gala Presentations.

Michel Brault (2007)

(by Girish.)

Just a quick note to point out that one of Canadian film history's greatest figures, the director/cinematographer Michel Brault, is being honored with a retrospective at TIFF this year. (For more on Brault, here's a post I did on Quebecois cinema a few months ago.)

Over the years I've seen most of the films in this program, so I thought I'd make some recommendations.

There are at least three unmissables:

-- Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961), the seminal French "Direct Cinema" film on which Brault served as cinematographer, bringing innovations in camera equipment and technique learned from his years at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

-- Pour la Suite du Monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963), a documentary about age-old whale-hunting practices in rural Quebec. Probably the single most famous Canadian documentary, and the first Canadian film to compete at Cannes.

-- Les Bons Debarras (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980), a brilliant rural-Gothic mother-daughter drama, is often cited in polls of the best Canadian films ever made. It was shot by Brault and is the "Canadian Open Vault" film at TIFF this year.

In addition, let me recommend Brault's excellent Les Ordres (1974, winner of Best Director at Cannes) and Entre la Mer et L'eau Douce (1967, his first feature, with Genevieve Bujold).

Honestly, after TIFF '07 is over and done, I suspect many of the above films will be among the strongest that end up playing there. Which is why I wanted to make sure I put in a little word for them.

Personally, I'll be looking forward to seeing his shorts, which I've never been able to catch so far.

Wavelengths (2007)

Wavelengths 1: What the Water Said

• POOL Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysia/Canada)
• WHAT THE WATER SAID, NOS. 4-6 David Gatten (USA)
• AT SEA Peter Hutton (USA)

Wavelengths 2: Winds of Change

• EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBRE Straub and Huillet (Italy)
• CAPITALISM: SLAVERY Ken Jacobs (USA)
• PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND John Gianvito (USA)

Wavelengths 3: Cross Worlds

• ALL THAT RISES Daïchi Saïto (Canada)
• CROSS WORLDS Cécile Fontaine (France)
• THE ACROBAT Chris Kennedy (USA/Canada)
• ECHO Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Canada)
• THE BUTTERFLY IN WINTER Ute Aurand and Maria Lang (Germany)
• MONICA Enrico Mandirola (France)

Wavelengths 4: In the Space of Time

• QUARTET Nicky Hamlyn (UK)
• ERZÄHLUNG Hannes Schüpbach (Switzerland/Italy)
• GONE Karø Goldt (Germany)
  

Wavelengths 5: Schindler's Houses

• THE ANTHEM Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
• SCHINDLER'S HOUSES Heinz Emigholz (Austria)

Wavelengths 6: Pour Vos Beaux Yeux

• POUR VOS BEAUX YEUX Henri Storck (Belgium)
• FAUX MOUVEMENTS Pip Chodorov (France)
• TAPE FILM Chris Kennedy (USA/Canada)
• ECP 2D: SUN John Price (Canada)
• DISCOVERIES ON THE FOREST FLOOR 1-3 Charlotte Pryce (USA)
• PAPILLON Olivier Fouchard (France)
• EVERTWO CIRCUMFLICKSRENT… PAGE 298 Bruce McClure(USA)

Midnight Madness (2007)

• DAINIPPONJIN Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan
• THE DEVIL'S CHAIR Adam Mason, UK
• FLASH POINT Wilson Yip, Hong Kong/China
• FRONTIÈRES Xavier Gens, France
• GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD George A. Romero, USA
• À L'INTÉRIEUR Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, France
• THE MOTHER OF TEARS Dario Argento, Italy/USA
• STUCK Stuart Gordon, Canada/USA
• SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO Takashi Miike, Japan
• VEXILLE Fumihiko Sori, Japan

Sprockets (2007)

• LA CITADELLE ASSIÉGÉE Philippe Calderon, France/Canada
• MAX & CO. Samuel Guillaume and Frédéric Guillaume, Switzerland/UK/Belgium/France
• MID ROAD GANG Pantham Thongsang and Somkiat Vithuranit, Thailand
• NOCTURNA Adrià GarcLa and Victor Maldonado, Spain
• THE SUBSTITUTE Ole Bornedal, Denmark
• TERRA Aristomenis Tsirbas, USA

Canadian Films (2007)

Yesterday's batch of news releases focused on TIFF's wide-ranging lineup of Canadian films. Rather than creating separate posts for Canadian Open Vault, Canadian Retrospective, Short Cuts Canada, and Canada First!, I'll list them all here. Also, several interesting Canadian films have been added to Contemporary World Cinema, Real to Reel, Gala Presentations, and Special Presentations, including the latest from Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, and Francois Girard.

Canadian Open Vault

• LES BONS DÉBARRAS (1980) Francis Mankiewicz
  

Canadian Retrospective: Michel Brault

• L'ACADIE, L'ACADIE?!? (1971)
• CHRONIQUE D'UN ÉTÉ (1961)
• ENTRE LA MER ET L'EAU DOUCE (1967)
• GENEVIÈVE (1964)
• LA LUTTE (1961)
• LES NOCES DE PAPIER (1989)
• LES ORDRES (1974)
• POUR LA SUITE DU MONDE (1963)
• LES RAQUETTEURS (1958)

Canada First!

• YOUNG PEOPLE F*CKING Martin Gero, ON
• AMAL Richie Mehta, ON
• LE CÈDRE PENCHÉ Rafaël Ouellet, QC
• CONTINENTAL, UN FILM SANS FUSIL Stéphane Lafleur, QC
• JUST BURIED Chaz Thorne, BC/NS
• THEY WAIT Ernie Barbarash, BC
• THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY Ed Gass-Donnelly, ON
• WALK ALL OVER ME Robert Cuffley, AB/BC

Short Cuts Canada

• See the complete list of shorts

The Official Poster (2007)

I just noticed this page, which seems to be the half-written introduction to a feature-in-the-works: a gallery of past TIFF posters.

Contemporary World Cinema (2007)

• ALL HAT Leonard Farlinger, Canada
• AMERICAN VENUS Bruce Sweeney, Canada
  
• AND ALONG COME TOURISTS Robert Thalheim, Germany
• AVANT QUE J’OUBLIE Jacques Nolot, France
• THE BAND’S VISIT Eran Kolirin, Israel/France
  
• THE BANISHMENT AndreI Zviaguintsev, Russia
• BARCELONA (A MAP) Ventura Pons, Spain
• BATTLE FOR HADITHA Nick Broomfield, UK
  
• BREAKFAST WITH SCOT Laurie Lynd, Canada
• BRICK LANE Sarah Gavron, UK
• CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (ENDLESS) Cristian Nemescu, Romania
  
• CARAMEL Nadine Labaki, Lebanon/France
• CHOP SHOP Ramin Bahrani, USA
  
• CONTRE TOUTE ESPÉRANCE Bernard Émond, Canada
• THE COUNTERFEITERS Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria/Germany
• DANS LA VIE Philippe Faucon, France
• DAYS AND CLOUDS Silvio Soldini, Italy/Switzerland
  
• THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey
• EMPTIES Jan Sverák, Czech Republic
• L’ENNEMI INTIME Florent Siri, France
• ERIK NIETZSCHE THE EARLY YEARS Jacob Thuesen, Denmark
  
• FARO – LA REINE DES EAUX Salif Traoré, Mali/France/Canada/Germany/Burkina Faso
• FOREVER NEVER ANYWHERE Antonin Svoboda, Austria
• GARAGE Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland
• A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan
• GONE WITH THE WOMAN Petter Næss, Norway
• HAPPINESS Hur Jin-ho, South Korea
  
• HAPPY NEW LIFE Árpád Bogdán, Hungary
• HOME SONG STORIES Tony Ayres, Australia
• IN MEMORY OF MYSELF Saverio Costanzo, Italy
• ISKA’S JOURNEY Csaba Bollók, Hungary
• JAR CITY Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland/Germany
• JELLYFISH Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, Israel/France
• JUST LIKE HOME Lone Scherfig, Denmark
• KING OF CALIFORNIA Mike Cahill, USA
• KINGS Tom Collins, Ireland/UK
  
• THE MOURNING FOREST Naomi Kawase, Japan/France
• MUNYURANGABO Lee Isaac Chung, USA
• MUTUM Sandra Kogut, Brazil/France
• MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD Daniele Luchetti, Italy/France
• NEW YORK CITY SERENADE Frank Whaley, USA
  
• NORMAL Carl Bessai, Canada
• NOS VIES PRIVÉES Denis Côté, Canada
• ON THE WINGS OF DREAMS Golam Rabbany Biplob, Bangladesh
• L’ORA DI PUNTA Vincenzo Marra, Italy
• PHILIPPINE SCIENCE Auraeus Solito, Philippines
• THE POPE’S TOILET Enrique Fernandes and César Charlone, Uruguay
• RUN, FAT BOY, RUN David Schwimmer, UK
• THE SECRETS Avi Nesher, Israel/France
  
• SECRET SUNSHINE Chang-dong Lee, South Korea
• SLINGSHOT Brillante Mendoza, Philippines
• SON OF RAMBOW Garth Jennings, France/UK
• STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING Andrew Wagner, USA
  
• THE STONE ANGEL Kari Skogland, Canada
• TO LOVE SOMEONE Åke Sandgren, Sweden
• THE TRAP Srdan Golubovic, Serbia/Germany/Hungary
  
• UNDER THE SAME MOON Patricia Riggen, Mexico/USA
• UNFINISHED SKY Peter Duncan, Australia
• UNFINISHED STORIES Pourya Azarbayjani, Iran
  
• UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE Catherine Breillat, France
  
• WEIRDSVILLE Allan Moyle, Canada
• WOLFSBERGEN Nanouk Leopold, Netherlands
  

Vanguard (2007)

• BOY A John Crowley, UK
• LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR Christophe Honoré, France
• CHRYSALIS Julien Leclercq, France
• CONTROL Anton Corbijn, UK/Australia
• DÉFICIT Gael García Bernal, Mexico
• EX DRUMMER Koen Mortier, Belgium
• THE EXODUS Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong
  
• HELP ME EROS Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan
• ME Rafa Cortés, Spain
• MISTER LONELY Harmony Korine, UK/France/Ireland/USA
  
• NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES Céline Sciamma, France
• THE ORPHANAGE Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain
• PARANOID PARK Gus Van Sant, France
• PING PONG PLAYA' Jessica Yu, USA
• SAD VACATION Aoyama Shinji, Japan
• SMILEY FACE Gregg Araki, USA
• WHITE LIES, BLACK SHEEP James Spooner, USA
  
• XXY Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/Spain/France

Visions (2007)

• 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS Cristian Mungiu, Romania
• L’AMOUR CACHÉ Alessandro Capone, Italy/Luxembourg/Belgium
  
• BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME Hana Makhmalbaf, Afghanistan
• DANS LA VILLE DE SYLVIA José Luis Guerín, Spain
• DEATH IN THE LAND OF ENCANTOS Lav Diaz, Philippines
• DR PLONK Rolf de Heer, Australia
• ENCARNACIÓN Anahí Berneri, Argentina
  
• IMPORT EXPORT Ulrich Seidl, Austria
• M Lee Myung-se, South Korea
• MANGE, CECI EST MON CORPS Michelange Quay, France
• NIGHT Lawrence Johnston, Australia
• PINK Alexander Voulgaris, Greece
  
• PLOY Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand
• SILENT LIGHT Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands
• SILENT RESIDENT Christian Frosch, Austria/Germany/Luxembourg/Hungary
• SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS Hiner Saleem, France
  
• A STRAY GIRLFRIEND Ana Katz, Argentina/Spain
• THOSE THREE Naqi Nemati, Iran
• TIME TO DIE Dorota Kedzierzawska, Poland
  
• THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS Bruce McDonald, Canada
• YOU, THE LIVING Roy Andersson, Sweden/France/Germany/Denmark/Norway

Real to Reel (2007)

• ALGERIE, HISTOIRES A NE PAS DIRE Jean-Pierre Lledo, Algeria
• AMAZING JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE WHO, Paul Crowder/Murray Lerner, USA
• BODY OF WAR Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, USA
• CALLAS ASSOLUTA Philippe Kholy, France
• CHILDREN OF THE SUN Ran Tal, Israel/USA
• DARFUR NOW Ted Braun, USA
• THE DICTATOR HUNTER Klaartje Quirijns, The Netherlands/USA
• DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT: A NATION'S JOURNEY Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan, Pakistan
• ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD Werner Herzog, USA
• FENGMING: A CHINESE MEMOIR Wang Bing, Hong Kong/China
• GLASS: A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS Scott Hicks, Australia
• HEAVY METAL IN BAGDHAD Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti, Canada
• HOLLYWOOD CHINESE Arthur Dong, USA
• IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, USA
• A JIHAD FOR LOVE Parvez Sharma, USA/UK/France/Germany/Australia
• JOY DIVISION Grant Gee, UK/USA
• LOU REED'S BERLIN Julian Schnabel, USA Real to Reel
• MAN OF CINEMA: PIERRE RISSIENT Todd McCarthy, USA
• THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES Andrey Paounov, Bulgaria/USA/Germany
• MY ENEMY'S ENEMY Kevin Macdonald, France/UK
• MY KID COULD PAINT THAT Amir Bar-Lev, USA
• OBSCENE Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor, USA
• OPERATION FILMMAKER Nina Davenport, USA
• PLEASE VOTE FOR ME Weijun Chen, China
• A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN Peter Raymont, Canada
• REBELLION: THE LITVINENKO CASE Olga Konskaya and Andreï Nekrasov, Russia
• SURFWISE Doug Pray, USA
• TERROR'S ADVOCATE (L'AVOCAT DE LA TERREUR) Barbet Schroeder, France
• TRUMBO Peter Askin, USA
• USELESS Jia Zhang-ke, China
• VERY YOUNG GIRLS David Schisgall, USA
• THE WILD HORSE REDEMPTION John Zaritsky, Canada
  

Masters (2007)

• ALEXANDRA Alexander Sokurov, Russia/France
• LES AMOURS D’ASTRÉE ET DE CÉLADON Eric Rohmer, France
• BEYOND THE YEARS Im Kwon-taek, South Korea
• CHAOS Youssef Chahine and Youssef Khaled, Egypt/France
• CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, THE ENIGMA Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal
• DÉSENGAGEMENT Amos Gitai, Israel/France/Germany/Italy
• FADOS Carlos Saura, Spain
• LA FILLE COUPÉE EN DEUX Claude Chabrol, France/Germany
• FOUR WOMEN Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India
• GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER! Takeshi Kitano, Japan
• IT’S A FREE WORLD… Ken Loach, UK/Italy/Germany/Spain
  
• THE MAN FROM LONDON Béla Tarr, France/Hungary/Germany
• NE TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE Jacques Rivette, France/Italy
• ONE HUNDRED NAILS Ermanno Olmi, Italy
• THE PAST Hector Babenco, Argentina/Brazil
• THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA Wayne Wang, USA
• A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS Wayne Wang, USA
• ULZHAN Volker Schlöndorff, Germany/Kazakhstan/France
• LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/Taiwan
• THE VOYEURS Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India
  

Special Presentations (2007)

• ANGEL François Ozon, France/UK/Belgium
• THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD Andrew Dominik, USA
• ATONEMENT Joe Wright, UK
• BATTLE IN SEATTLE Stuart Townsend, USA
• BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD Sidney Lumet, USA
• BEFORE THE RAINS Santosh Sivan, USA, India
• BILL Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann, USA
• THE BRAVE ONE Neil Jordan, USA, Australia
• CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA Michael Moore, USA
• CHACUN SON CINÉMA Various, France
• CHAOTIC ANA Julio Medem, Spain
• DEATH DEFYING ACTS Gillian Armstrong, UK/Australia
• THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY Julian Schnabel, France
  
• THE GIRL IN THE PARK David Auburn, USA
• HERE IS WHAT IS Adam Vollick, Daniel Lanois, Adam Samuels, Canada
  
• HONEYDRIPPER John Sayles, USA
• I'M NOT THERE Todd Haynes, USA
• IN BLOOM Vadim Perelman, USA
• IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH Paul Haggis, USA
• INTO THE WILD Sean Penn, USA
• JUNO Jason Reitman, USA
• LARS AND THE REAL GIRL Craig Gillespie, USA
• LOVE COMES LATELY Jan Schütte, Germany/Austria/USA
• LUST, CAUTION Ang Lee, Taiwan
• MAD DETECTIVE Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai, Hong Kong
• MAN FROM PLAINS Jonathan Demme, USA
• MARGOT AT THE WEDDING Noah Baumbach, USA
• MARRIED LIFE Ira Sachs, USA
• MONGOL Sergei Bodrov, Germany/Kazakhstan/Mongolia/Russia
  
• MY WINNIPEG Guy Maddin, Canada
  
• NIGHTWATCHING Peter Greenaway, U.K., Poland, Canada, The Netherlands
  
• NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, USA
• NOTHING IS PRIVATE Alan Ball, USA
• PERSEPOLIS Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, France
  
• POOR BOY'S GAME Clement Virgo, Canada
• RAILS & TIES Alison Eastwood, USA
  
• RECLAIM YOUR BRAIN Hans Weingartner, Germany/Austria
• REDACTED Brian De Palma, USA
• RESERVATION ROAD Terry George, USA
  
• ROMULUS, MY FATHER Richard Roxburgh, Australia
• THE SAVAGES Tamara Jenkins, USA
• SHADOWS Milcho Manchevski, Republic of Macedonia
  
• SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL Roger Spottiswoode, Canada
• SILK François Girard, Canada
• THE SUN ALSO RISES Jiang Wen, China
• THE TAKE Brad Furman, USA
• THEN SHE FOUND ME Helen Hunt, USA
• THE VISITOR Thomas McCarthy, USA
• WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? Anand Tucker, Ireland/UK

Gala Presentations (2007)

• ACROSS THE UNIVERSE Julie Taymor, USA
• L'ÂGE DES TÉNÈBRES Denys Arcand, Canada
• BLOOD BROTHERS Alexi Tan, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong
  
• CASSANDRA'S DREAM Woody Allen, UK
• CLEANER Renny Harlin, USA
• CLOSING THE RING Richard Attenborough, UK/CANADA
• LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE Alain Corneau, FRANCE
• EASTERN PROMISES David Cronenberg, UK/Canada
• ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Shekhar Kapur, USA
• EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC Paolo Barzman, Canada
  
• FUGITIVE PIECES Jeremy Podeswa, Canada
• THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB Robin Swicord, USA
• THE LAST LEAR Rituparno Ghosh, India
  
• MICHAEL CLAYTON Tony Gilroy, USA
• RENDITION Gavin Hood, USA
• SLEUTH Kenneth Branagh, USA
• THE WALKER Paul Schrader, USA/UK